If the money tree's bigger elsewhere, your team just may pack up and move, giving you the foam finger.

It’s time. Time for you find something better to do with your Sundays.

We in San Diego just can’t handle all the stress and angst that oozes from you Browns fans.

“I would look my age if I didn’t spend 16 weeks watching this team, and my liver would be happier, too,” Cleveland transplant Bryan Gard, 36, was telling NFL Insider this week.

Gard, a past president of the San Diego Browns Backers fan club, will continue to watch the telecasts, however, and make his pilgrimages to Cleveland Browns Stadium, because that’s what Browns fans do.

They’re the Tex Cobb of fan bases, hands low, always leading with the chin.

From its Lake Erie source, the masochism virus has spread far and wide, the team boasting 360 Browns Backers clubs across this land and dotting nine other countries. San Diego's Browns backers, said to number 185 unfortunate souls, gather every week at a La Jolla brew spot to share in the misery.

At least they know they’ll have Januarys off.

Gard, a software sales engineer who moved to New York last October, said the La Jolla spot “teems” with Browns fans, creating an overflow that “spills” out of the place.

By midseason every year, he reports, there’s not so much teeming or spilling.

A check of the San Diego chapter’s Web site shows photos of shiny happy people in Browns garb, pre-kickoff no doubt.

NFL Insider noticed that almost all of the fans photographed are young adults, as over-40 Browns fans have kicked off or are too worn out to get to La Jolla.

Chargers fans worry about their team moving to Los Angeles.

Browns fans already lost their team to Baltimore, and, five years later, saw the team win a Super Bowl.

A new Browns era dawned in 1999, since rewarding the faithful with zero playoff victories, 11 losing seasons and a 1-6 mark this year.

The head coach, Cleveland’s fifth in seven years at the time of his hire, hadn’t been a head coach anywhere else.

But when the Chargers show up on Sunday, some 70,000 fans will fill Cleveland’s stadium.

Gard has broken bread with Browns Backers in La Jolla, New York, Miami, Richmond and Cleveland.

“It’s the same crew of people, no matter where you go,” he said.

Prideful. Resilient.

"Gluttons for punishment," he added.

With the team 1-5, one Browns fans drew up a sign. It read "11-5 starts here."